Triple

T10208537
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Bell Aliant (historical) E242266 entity
Predicate tickerSymbol P1447 FINISHED
Object BA
BA is the former stock ticker symbol for Bell Aliant, a Canadian telecommunications company that provided internet, phone, and TV services primarily in Atlantic Canada before being acquired by Bell Canada.
E849500 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (4 steps)

Every LLM step that produced this triple, in pipeline order — named-entity classification, the disambiguation choices (the exact options shown, with the pick highlighted), and the generated description. The batch + timestamp of each is in the Provenance table below.

NER Named-entity recognition gpt-5-mini
Instruction
Given a phrase, classify it is english named entity (e.g., persons, organizations, works of art) in Latin script, or not (e.g., literals, dates, URLs, verbose phrases). For disambiguation, the statement where the phrase occurs as object is also given. Please return a JSON object with `phrase` (string, the phrase being analyzed) and `is_ne` (boolean, indicating whether the phrase is a Named Entity).
Input
Phrase: BA | Statement: [Bell Aliant (historical), tickerSymbol, BA]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: BA
Context triple: [Bell Aliant (historical), tickerSymbol, BA]
  • A. BA
    BA is the New York Stock Exchange ticker symbol for The Boeing Company, a major American aerospace and defense manufacturer.
  • B. BA
    BA is the vehicle registration code used on license plates for cars registered in Bratislava, the capital city of Slovakia.
  • C. BA
    BA is the two-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code assigned to Bosnia and Herzegovina.
  • D. BA
    BA is the commonly used abbreviation for the British Academy, the United Kingdom’s national academy for the humanities and social sciences.
  • E. BA
    BA is the commonly used abbreviation for the British Association for the Advancement of Science, a historic organization dedicated to promoting science and its understanding.
  • F. None of above. chosen
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NEDg Description generation gpt-5.1
Instruction
Generate a one-sentence description of the target entity. 
You are given a context triple in the form (subject, predicate, object), where the object is the target entity. 
# Instructions
Use the triple to infer relevant information about the entity. Describe the entity based on what is most defining, well-known. 
Avoid repeating the information from the triple, unless really essential.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the target entity]"
Input
Entity: BA
Triple: [Bell Aliant (historical), tickerSymbol, BA]
Generated description
BA is the former stock ticker symbol for Bell Aliant, a Canadian telecommunications company that provided internet, phone, and TV services primarily in Atlantic Canada before being acquired by Bell Canada.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: BA
Target entity description: BA is the former stock ticker symbol for Bell Aliant, a Canadian telecommunications company that provided internet, phone, and TV services primarily in Atlantic Canada before being acquired by Bell Canada.
  • A. BA
    BA is the New York Stock Exchange ticker symbol for The Boeing Company, a major American aerospace and defense manufacturer.
  • B. BA
    BA is the IATA code for British Airways, the United Kingdom’s flag carrier and one of the world’s largest international airlines.
  • C. BA
    BA is the station code for Bathurst station on the Toronto Transit Commission subway system.
  • D. BA
    BA is the commonly used abbreviation for the British Association for the Advancement of Science, a historic organization dedicated to promoting science and its understanding.
  • E. BA
    BA is a common abbreviation for Broken Arrow, a suburban city in northeastern Oklahoma.
  • F. None of above. chosen

Provenance (5 batches)

The batch behind each pipeline step, in order, with when it ran. Timestamps are batch-level — stages were processed in waves, so the object chain (NER → NED1 → NEDg → NED2) reads in order, but predicate / elicitation batches can sit in a different wave.

Step Stage Batch ID Status When
creating Elicitation batch_69d381ae26c48190985abd0e25ee5d04 completed April 6, 2026, 9:49 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d395fa86cc8190b4f115b5a0f99772 completed April 6, 2026, 11:16 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d652cca9c081909f705365c70db009 completed April 8, 2026, 1:06 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d654ddaed88190bcd7f1a2ee9dd462 completed April 8, 2026, 1:15 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d655338cc08190ba00163f0afa4c3b completed April 8, 2026, 1:16 p.m.
Created at: April 6, 2026, 10:59 a.m.